Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Politics is struggle that purges a system. When properly managed, it is the substitute for aggression and war. It is corrupt in spots, but also it is a way to infuse higher ideals into national affairs. Politics remains the only process through which we can achieve order, obligation, survival, freedom...
...from his car, they were greeted by a volley of gunfire, and Molina heard a cry, "Don't fire! I'm a police agent!" and another voice cry, "I give myself up!" Both Molina and the technician at the nearby TV tower said they heard no police order to halt. There was no convincing explanation of why it took a police car 90 minutes to get the wounded Soto to a hospital, a trip that a car can make in 25 minutes. Soto was dead when he reached the hospital...
...Carlson groups accounted for almost half of last year's billion-dollar-plus sales. One of them, the catalogue showroom retailing operations, which grossed $216 million, embraces brand-name discount chains that require little in the way of display space, sales help and security personnel because customers order merchandise from catalogues. Thus the companies can undercut many of the big low-price chains like K mart. The other, the Carlson Premium Group, which last year got one-third of its $250 million revenues from Gold Bond Stamps, organizes incentive programs for companies that reward high-achieving employees and dealers...
...afraid of the big bad monkfish? Certainly not Julia Child, that indefatigable doyenne of the television kitchen, even though the monkfish, or Lophius americanus, is such an ugly American that fish stores ordinarily chop off its fanged foot-wide head before they display the fish in order not to frighten customers. Taping a cooking session for the new season, Child hauled the fish up by its tail, showed the camera its "skin that moves around" and praised its "marvelous teeth-top, bottom and middle." "It is firm, lean and gelatinous," she insisted, "and very good in bouillabaisse." When...
...three morning dailies. Then, by combining forces with one of them, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis's Times, Chandler forced the Times's main competitor out of business. Later, with the help of a bribed federal reclamation engineer, Chandler stole the water from a distant Southern California valley in order to turn his thousands of desert acres into subdivisions--thus laying the basis for the Chandler real estate fortune and the Chandler dynasty...